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Stone Age: see Paleolithic period Paleolithic period (pā'lēəlĭth`ĭk, –lēō–, păl'–) or
..... Click the link for more information. ; Mesolithic period Mesolithic period (mĕz'əlĭth`ĭk) or Middle Stone Age,
..... Click the link for more information. ; Neolithic period Neolithic period or New Stone Age. The term neolithic is used, especially in archaeology and anthropology, to designate a stage of cultural evolution or technological development characterized by the use of stone tools, the existence of
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Stone Age

First known period of prehistoric human culture, characterized by the use of stone tools. The term is little used by specialists today. See Paleolithic Period; Mesolithic Period; Neolithic Period; stone-tool industry. See also Bronze Age; Iron Age.

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Stone Age - In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca. 1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs. Sometimes used for the entire period up to 1960-61 (see Iron Age); however, it is more descriptive to characterise the latter period in terms of a "Bronze Age" era of transistor-logic, pre-ferrite core memory machines with drum or CRT mass storage (as opposed to just mercury delay lines and/or relays).

More generally, the term is used pejoratively for ancient hardware or software, even by survivors from the Stone Age.

I had entirely forgotten the rifle in my hand and the revolvers at my belt; one does not readily syn-chronize his thoughts with the stone age and the twentieth century simultaneously.

Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

"A relic of the stone age," declared Coglan, warmly.

The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context

Martin and Cheese-Face were two savages, of the stone age, of the squatting place and the tree refuge.

Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context

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